Creative Analysis: Part 16 - DOP Jody Lee Lipes On I Know This Much Is True January 25^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Allowing one actor to play two roles in the same scene has been possible, at some level, at least since 1961’s The Parent Trap, in which one of Hayley Mills’ arms disappears visibly behind a soft-edged split screen. To put it mildly, techniques have improved, but keeping the necessary technology out…

HDR: Part 19 - Creative Technology - Bayer And Beyond January 22^nd 2021 - 09:00 AM

It’d be easy to think that when Bryce Bayer’s name appeared on the Kodak patent for single-sensor color cameras in 1976, it was a new idea. Sufficiently new to be patentable, perhaps, but actually the idea of covering a sensor with a pattern of primary-colored filters goes back to the…

HDR: Part 18 - The Resolution Ruse: It’s Not All Peaches And Cream January 12^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

With Blackmagic recently introducing a new 12K camcorder, the question arises (once again) how much resolution is enough. After all, even the most fervent resolution junkie would have to agree there is a practical upper limit to resolution and how much is actually discernible and worthwhile.

Creative Analysis: Part 15 - Cinematographer Nancy Schreiber On P-Valley January 11^th 2021 - 09:00 AM

Often, performers at a strip club are fleeting characters in a film or television production, sometimes reduced almost to the level of production design. P-Valley, produced for Starz by Chernin Entertainment, is based on Katori Hall’s stage play Pussy Valley, and defies that expectation by concentrating on the lives o…

Creative Analysis: Part 14 - Cinematographer Sebastian Thaler On 7500 December 28^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

According to International Civil Aviation Organization rules, if an airliner transmits a certain four-digit transponder code, the world should assume that it is being hijacked. The 2019 film 7500, directed by Patrick Vollrath, takes that code as its title and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Aylin Tezel and Carlo Kitzlinger as the crew of…

Creative Analysis: Part 13 - Cinematographer Stuart Brereton On Baking Christmas December 14^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

In the mid 1990s, the north of England was a hotbed of film production, with well-known features such as Brassed Off and The Full Monty all produced within a few years and a few miles of each other. The Northern Media School, then part of Sheffield Hallam University, was literally…

Creative Analysis: Part 12 - Cinematographer Mark Kenfield On Zia November 30^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

By sheer count of productions, the Indian film market is possibly the world’s largest for film in terms of admissions. On average, the country’s cinemas see more than 1.5 annual admissions per capita – and with a population of nearly 1.4 billion, that’s a lot of capitas – with more than 1600 features …

HDR: Part 17 - Creative Technology - Is RAW Really Uncompressed & Unprocessed? November 27^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

It’s hard to object to raw recording. The last thing anyone wants is for the creative intent to be adulterated by unfortunate technical necessities like compression, and the flexibility of raw makes for… well. Let’s admit it: better grading, but also easier rectification of mistakes after the fact, to th…

HDR: Part 16 - Creative Technology - LED Vs HMI November 16^th 2020 - 09:00 AM

Big movies still demand big setups, no matter what anyone tells you about the battery-powered light they’re trying to sell. Battery-powered lights are wonderful, of course, even if we only use the battery power for long enough to walk a light in and set it up, but popular ideas a…

Creative Analysis: Part 10 - Cinematographer John Brawley On The Great November 3^rd 2020 - 09:00 AM

Cinematographer John Brawley finds himself happily amidst of an unprecedented renaissance of high-end television. The Great is a production that presents a lavish (if fictionalised) spectacle of eighteenth-century Russia, with Brawley photographing five episodes, with the remainder shot by Maja Zamojda and Anette Haellmigk. Ranging from the Royal Palace of…

2024 BEITC Update: ATSC 3.0 Broadcast Positioning Systems May 15^th 2024 - 10:00 AM

Move over, WWV and GPS. New information about Broadcast Positioning Systems presented at BEITC 2024 provides insight into work on a crucial, common view OTA, highly precision, public time reference that ATSC 3.0 broadcasters can easily provide.

Wi-Fi Gets Wider With Wi-Fi 7 March 26^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

The last 56k dialup modem I bought in 1998 cost more than double the price of a 28k modem, and the double bandwidth was worth the extra money. New Wi-Fi 7 devices are similarly premium-priced because early adaptation of leading-edge new technology is nearly always expensive. The 6 GHz Wi-Fi band was introduced…

NAB Show 2024 BEIT Sessions Part 2: New Broadcast Technologies March 25^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

The most tightly focused and fresh technical information for TV engineers at the NAB Show will be analyzed, discussed, and explained during the four days of BEIT sessions. It’s the best opportunity on Earth to learn from and question indisputable industry experts, meet them, and swap business cards.

Chris Brown Discusses The Themes Of The 2024 NAB Show March 20^th 2024 - 09:00 AM

The Broadcast Bridge sat down with Chris Brown, executive vice president and managing director, NAB Global Connections and Events to discuss this year’s gathering April 13-17 (show floor open April 14-17) and how the industry looks to the show each year for the latest in technology and business models.

Project Managing The Creative Elements Of Live Sports Production March 4^th 2024 - 09:30 AM

Huw Bevan is an Executive Producer, Consultant and Head of Cricket for Sunset+Vine, in London, one of the UK’s leading independent sports production companies that produces a full slate of rugby, soccer and cricket events each year. This interview with him brings insight into the role of the…

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